How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
🛈⏬Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition, he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical knowledge in short periods of time. Jan-21-2014 Update. The video transcripts are now available via the following links: English Only: http://www.the-third-ear.com/files/TEDx-ChrisLonsdale-LearnAnyLanguage6Months.pdf English + Chinese Translation: http://www.kungfuenglish.com/files/TEDx-ChrisLonsdale-LearnAnyLanguage6Months-ENG-CHS.pdf In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters
🛈⏬There's a stroke-by-stroke way to write every Chinese character. Here's how I got used to hànzì and kanji stroke orders, and why even then they still threw a few punches. Subscribe for language! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang ** Past viewers have objected to my use of historical gotchas and exceptions. If that's you, 02:49 is the perfect place to end the story. (You'll see me go from too hard to too easy !) Maybe skip to 04:52 to see the punching Hànzì. ** Forgive the mismatched audio. I rerecorded the intro. Learning kanji and hànzì means writing the right strokes in the right order. As if there weren't enough to pay attention to... At first, this seemed like the last straw. The moment I fully realized this was utterly unlike other writing systems. Fortunately, there were real patterns here! Patterns you can get good mileage out of! Even then, some characters still threw me for a loop. Like the different stroke orders between China and Japan. Or patterns that worked for one character but shifted when that character was part of a larger character. Or the first time I saw someone write cursive characters. It's a fun skill. ~ Credits ~ Art and animation by Josh from NativLang Music by Kevin MacLeod: Path of the Goblin King v2, Sneaky Snooper - (incompetech.com) Music by me: Upbeat Thoughts, Oowah - (soundcloud.com/Botmasher) General image, font, sfx and sources credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hq4IgROtgkdQQGeBB70OHcKnPKt5Zo3tR8F_oNNs-AQ/The Celtic Languages
🛈⏬Today's video is all about the Celtic Language family! ** Click here for a new and improved version of the Irish audio samples: https://youtu.be/OP91sCommJw Special thanks to Bartley Hudson for reading the Irish samples and to Tim Tatw for reading the Welsh samples. Support Langfocus on Patreon http://patreon.com/langfocus My current Patrons include these wonderful people: Brandon Gonzalez, Guillermo Jimenez, Sidney Frattini Junior, Bennett Seacrist, Ruben Sanchez, Michael Cuomo, Eric Garland, Brian Michalowski, Sebastian Langshaw, Yixin Alfred Wang, Vadim Sobolev, Maurice Chow, Matthew Cockburn, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Sergio Tsakatikas, Qarion, Pedro Flores, Raymond Thomas, Marco Antonio Barcellos Junior, David Beitler, Rick Gerritzen, Sailcat, Mark Kemp, Éric Martin, Leo Barudi, Piotr Chmielowski, Suzanne Jacobs, Johann Goergen, Darren Rennels, Caio Fernandes, Iddo Berger, and Brent Werner for their generous Patreon support. *http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Music Main: Angevin 120 loop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200111 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Outro: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100340 Artist: http://incompetech.com/CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters
🛈⏬The ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it those rambunctious CAPITALIZERS or the fancy but timid minusculizers? Who made scripts join forces to form one superalphabet? Roman soldiers? Medieval scribes? Are camels to blame for CamelCase? Why does something about these letters remind me of Arabic, even though Arabic doesn't capitalize its letters? Word of the day: bicameral. Sorry, BiCaMeRaL. You'll see. CREDITS Art, animation and music by NativLang ~ CC-BY and Public Domain images ~ Greek inscription at Korykian, Zde Forum inscription with lizard, Anthony M from Rome Carolingian minuscule, Beinecke Digital Collections Codex Aureus, Vitold Muratov Mt. Athos Dionys. Cod. 587 Cyril and Methodius, Radek Linner Old Bulgarian alphabet, Vakots7 Russian Azbuka Benois Oifig na bPassana, Jnestorius Syriac Sertâ manuscript, Schøyen Collection MS 577 Any CC-BY stuff not mentioned here is listed in the credits for Thoth's Pill: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyYKGKVOZmDG1F71zaCcV69FSYtWk_SKT14tMQcFGU8 Thank you for your kind words, encouragement and your excitement about language!Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
🛈⏬Professor Brian Kernighan presents on 'How to succeed in language design without really trying.' Brian Kernighan is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham. Download the presentation slides here: https://uniofnottm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/debs_storey_nottingham_ac_uk/EaGKsuSJGStBnYBRfy5ZwYsBdZoEz1syb2UZGlzFqPoXug?e=byw9pm For more videos featuring Brian visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckqZ90zLyy36qjO5YIn1RulG Visit the School of Computer Science's website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/index.aspxWhy some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility
🛈⏬Sometimes two languages are close enough that speakers of one understand the other. But it's not always fair. It's easier for Danish speakers to understand Swedish than the other way around. Same goes for Portuguese and Spanish. Many other languages, too. How come? Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/NativLang/overview ~ Briefly ~ In this animation I'll share a couple cases of this strange uneven understanding. I'll tell you about a time I witnessed it myself, then take out a map and journey to Scandinavia, where this kind of thing is normal. With Scandinavian languages in hand, we'll think about the terms mutual intelligibility and asymmetric intelligibility . We'll see three factors at work: attitude, exposure, language. Journeying into that last one, we'll look at results of studies that try to relate Scandinavia's linguistic differences to asymmetric difficulties in understanding. We'll hit a snag that requires a bit more research before concluding it's not entirely about the languages themselves. I'll end with some quick examples, including ones that patrons pointed out when they voted for this video. ~ Credits ~ Art, animation, narration and some of the music by Josh from NativLang Doc full of sources for claims made and images, music, sfx, fonts used: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oHh187AWkbZFiICj5wwgyOM4-9Go44p-dQr7BBGrHD8/ Music that's not by me: Tickled Pink Josh Woodward - http://joshwoodward.com/ Marty Gots a Plan, Silver Flame, Thinking Music, Cheery Monday Kevin MacLeod - https://www.incompetech.comIf DANES ruled the world (Geography Now)
🛈⏬Install Vikings NOW and get 200 gold! iOS - http://bit.ly/2irbzzu Android - http://bit.ly/2Ae6pPz Did you know at one point in time, the Danes had a colonial empire with settlements in Africa and India? Yep, and today we explore what it would look like if they held on to their former colonies. We now have a Public mailbox! Feel free to send anything via mail! Our public mailbox address is: 1905 N Wilcox ave, #432 Los Angeles CA, 90068 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1Os7W46 BTS info and tidbits? Check out the Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/GeographyNowFanpage/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/geographynow Instagram: http://instagram.com/GeographyNow_Official Become a patron! Donate to help pay for production of GN! Brandon the Cameraman, as well as Ken the graphics guy. You also get exclusive BTS footage, pics/ and access to other perks! Go to: http://patreon.com/GeographyNow WATCH MORE: Countries A to Z: http://bit.ly/1T8Z9JY Europe: http://bit.ly/1YoRaIB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Geography Now! This is the first and only Youtube Channel that actively attempts to cover profiles on every single country of the world. We are going to do them alphabetically so be patient if you are waiting for one that's down the road. CONTACT US if you are from a country that is coming up! Teach us! Email: GeographyLater@gmail.com Stay cool Stay tuned and remember, this is Earth, your home. Learn about it.List of ethnicities in Europe
What's the pattern here? - thinking with abstractions -- Linguistics & Logic 101
🛈⏬How do you go from a concrete object like a basketball to an abstract idea like a circle? Why do you see the one and think about the other? What makes this kind of thing useful? Abstract thinking allows us to identify patterns and see common features. Once we abstract away the differences, we can group the similarities to come up with a new idea all its own. In just a few spare minutes, let's take a tour of the skills involved in this thought process and consider some practical applications. Text + video version: http://www.nativlang.com/logic/thinking-abstract.php Music by nativlangModding the Latin Alphabet: the odd history of G, J, U, W, Y
🛈⏬Not every letter in your alphabet comes straight from ancient Rome. Some letters were crafted by clever old-school modders. This is their history. Learn how G comes from tailed C, J is an I with a tail, and the stories of U, V, W and Y intertwine. Meet soldiers, plebes, scribes and kings as the alphabet finds its way from the Romans to you. Most credits for sound effects and images found in Thoth's Pill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdO3IP0Pro8&index=13&list=PLc4s09N3L2h3HtaAYVqOVKGt2h6wRasw2 CC-BY and public domain images not found in Thoth's Pill: Ostia Antica inscription, Marie-Lan Nguyen Epistola del Trissino de le lettere nuovamente aggiunte nella lingua italiana Shakespeare's First Folio, Jessie Chapman Benjamin Franklin's Mémoires Henry VIII's copy of Cicero's De Officiis, Folger Shakespeare Library Music: Vadodara Chill Mix and Cambodian Odyssey, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Happy Ukulele, Jason Shaw (audionautix.com)a day in the life of a software engineer
🛈⏬… hi youtube here’s my first video, giving you an inside look to a typical day in the life of me, a software engineer. hope you enjoy! x, mayuko -------------------------------------------------------- Hang out with me and friends on my Slack! Join: http://bit.ly/helloMayukoSlack (case sensitive) Follow me on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellomayuko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellomayuko/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayukoOfficial/ Business inquiries: business@helloMayuko.com -------------------------------------------------------- Music by Chillhop: http://chillhop.com/listen Joakim Karud - Canals: https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud HIP DOZER - Foreign Exchange: https://soundcloud.com/hipdozer Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/ChillhopSpotify all footage was shot on an iPhone 7.Mystery Languages 4 - Can you guess them all?
🛈⏬This is another video in the Mystery Languages series. Hear and see language samples then guess what language it is! Can you guess them all? Can you come close? Find out! *** Spoilers ahead*** Don't look down until you've watched the video! Support Langfocus on Patreon http://patreon.com/langfocus My current Patrons include these fantastic people: Brandon Gonzalez, Pomax, Mark Thesing, Jiajun Jeremy Liu, Виктор Павлов, Guillermo Jimenez, Sidney Frattini Junior, Bennett Seacrist, Ruben Sanchez, Michael Cuomo, Eric Garland, Brian Michalowski, Sebastian Langshaw, Vadim Sobolev, Mohammed A. Abahussain, Fred, UlasYesil, JL Bumgarner, Rob Hoskins, Thomas A. McCloud, Ian Smith, Maurice Chow, Matthew Cockburn, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Sergio Tsakatikas, Qarion, Pedro Flores, Raymond Thomas, Marco Antonio Barcellos Junior, David Beitler, Rick Gerritzen, Sailcat, Mark Kemp, Éric Martin, Leo Barudi, Piotr Chmielowski, Suzanne Jacobs, Johann Goergen, Darren Rennels, Caio Fernandes, Iddo Berger, Peter Nikitin, and Brent Werner for their generous Patreon support. *http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Music: Roll the Top Down by Gunnar Olson. Outro music: Fortaleza by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena Source of Tok Pisin audio sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GepEJuy94dQ Source of written Tok Pisin samples: Pidgin English by John J. Murphy Source of Zulu audio sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77dxvBr8aE Source of written Zulu samples (and accompanying voice): http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/zulu.php Source of Polish audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VP8ov35SQg Source of Polish written samples: http://www.transparent.com/learn-polish/phrases.htmlAre Iceland & Greenland's Names Mixed Up?
🛈⏬Start protecting yourself on the web at http://www.NordVPN.com/NAMEEXPLAIN or use promocode ‘NAMEEXPLAIN’ at checkout and save 77%! HELP SUPPORT NAME EXPLAIN ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5337771 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NameExplainYT Thank you to all my Patrons for supporting the channel! Ahyan Panjwani, Alexander Muiruri, Alp, Amanda Groe, Anuradha, Arnand, Ap, bash_snr, Besic Arbolishvili, Carmen Kohli, Chris Allen, Chris Dolan, Christopher, Christopher Cleghorn, Cidric Lapin-Tueur, Cosmin Ciotlos, Danielle Brabazon, datalal624, Dave Brondsema, David Gorny, David Leiva, David Nayer, Deadpoetpost, Domagoj Peck, Dominic Strmota, Eddie, Eetu Anttila, ElCallumus, Ephemeral vonHinterland, Eric Dang, Extemaso Linzter, FableReader, Florian Fries, frodooooooooooo, Gary Kemp, Gieron, Greg Spurgin, Haitham Al Zir, Hilda Perander, High Guy, Horatio Pitt, Jacob Raymond, Jamy Mahabier, Jasper Buan, Jeff Hilnbrand, John Falzon, John Borowiec, John Hennessey, Jon Lamar, Jonny Wolfe, Joseph Donohue, Karl Eiksson, Karolina Stanczuk, Kelly Barnes, Kira Cefai, Konstantin Haase, Kristian Wontroba, Krzysztof Kułak, Kuba Barć, Larry Peterson, Mahmood H. Hasan, Marcos Torres, Marija Mikulić, Martin Schotterer, Matt D, Matthew Gallant, Matthew Grantz, Mauro Pellegrini, Max Baker, Meep, Michael Moyer, mikemikev, Mreasyplay2, Muhammad Arman, Munir Amlani, Noah Kern, Noam Bechhofer, Oliver Janke, Panoat Chuchaisri, Paul Canniff, Paul Winkler, Paul, Paul Matthijsse, Pavitar, Philip Yip, prplz, Rafael, Rainy Sokhonn, Rene Padilla, Ricard Lemonache, RICHARD GRUBER, Richard Baran, Roland Kreuzer, Rosie Farthing, RowanU, Ryan Denny, Sam Janiszewshi, Sandy, Sarin82, Sean Wedgwood, Simon Mikolajek, SmileyMonster26, Søren Peterson, Step Back, Stephen Woods, Swarit Sohaard, Thomas Björkroth, Thomas Friend, Tien Long, Tommy Hanmer, Tovly Deutsch, UnoriginalName, Wendover Productions, Will Fox, YORIE1234, and Mum & Dad SOURCES & FURTHER READING How Iceland Got Its Name: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-iceland-got-its-name-9cxk878pw Hrafna-Floki - The Exodus From Norway: https://www.sagamuseum.is/overview/#hrafna-floki Is Iceland Really Green And Greenland Really Icy?: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/iceland-greenland-name-swap/ Erik the Red - Biography: https://www.biography.com/people/erik-the-red-9288270 PRONUNCIATION SOURCES Snæland: https://forvo.com/word/sn%C3%A6land/#is Leif Erickson: https://forvo.com/word/leif_erickson/#en Flóki: https://forvo.com/search/Fl%C3%B3ki/is/ Gullfoss: https://forvo.com/word/gullfoss/#is Lord of the Land Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Does time work differently in different languages? - Hopi Time
🛈⏬Whorf ignited a controversy when he claimed the Hopi don't speak or think about time the way Europeans do. Malotki wrote 600 pages to prove him wrong. Come explore Sapir-Whorf and Hopi Time! Do speakers of different languages have different concepts of time? Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Be my patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=584038 ~ BRIEFLY ~ After years of studying Hopi, one linguist wrote a whole book focusing on just one thing about the language: it's full of ways of talking about time. Of all things, why time? Decades earlier, Whorf studied Hopi. Building on his mentor Sapir's ideas about language, thought and culture, he drew a provocative conclusion. Comparing Hopi to European languages, he told us that the Hopi have a vastly different notion of time . To simplify, the Hopi think about time differently because they speak Hopi. Hopi became the poster child for linguistic relativity or Sapir-Whorf , the idea that language shapes your thoughts or even determines how you think about time. Watch as the big fish claims about Hopi time grow. See why Malotki and other detractors dismiss them. Then explore the resurgence Whorfian ideas about language from curious cases of fieldwork on the ground and results from the lab. Finally, meet the curious case of Yucatec, a tenseless language. In the end, we'll see that languages do talk about time differently, but getting people to act as if they have fundamentally different concepts of time. ~ CREDITS ~ Art, narration, animation and some of the music by Josh from NativLang Sources for claims and credits for imgs, music and sfx: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jo0LZ6rcLpXfmd7yekZDCce_cGLA9T6PZa6rsXIDFmI/5 Free Software That Are Actually Great! 2018
🛈⏬If you’re looking for free software for your computer, there’s a lot to choose from. To separate out the good programs from the bad, I will show you 5 free software that are actually great! This is the first edition of this year. This edition will focus primarily on free software for computers running the Windows operating system. If you're new, Subscribe! ▶ https://www.youtube.com/techgumbo Share This Video ▶ https://youtu.be/qSa2UPDH2yc 0:28 Web Browser 1:35 Multimedia Player 2:35 Video Editor 5:50 System Profiler 6:44 Cursor Editor “Free Software” Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8plsUfkTA&list=PLunpbmfrhFAWJA4lSDmRYJdcsEpjAuRdz Puffin Browser https://www.puffinbrowser.com/ PotPlayer https://potplayer.daum.net/ VSDC Free Video Editor http://www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor CPU-Z https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html RealWorld Cursor Editor http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-maker TechGumbo is a leading source for the technology that we use each day. Whether it’s discussing computer operating system tricks, the latest tips for your mobile phone, finding out about the newest gadgets, or letting you know about the best free software for your computer, TechGumbo has boundless topics on technology for the astute YouTube viewer.The Russian Language
🛈⏬Today's episode is all about the Russian language. Special thanks to Deni Mintsaev for his audio recordings and suggestions for this video. Check out Deni's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/craftbrothers2012 Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Kaan Ergen, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, and Sergio Tsakatikas for their generous Patreon support. http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Source of noun case example sentences: http://learningrussian.net/ Music: main music: Sunday by Otis McDonald. italki intro music: Bumper Tag by John Deley. Outro music: Take You by Vibe Tracks.Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters
🛈⏬4 out of 5 students agree: Kanji = Evil. But learning Chinese characters was worse than I expected. It's systems within systems! Subscribe for language! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang ~ Corrections / Additions ~ User JH points out that long strings of On'yomi don't have to be unintelligible! Akuma from Street Fighter and the teen fantasy novel Firegirl are two examples. See my sources for this objection. ~ For the reader in you ~ Hiragana, katakana and kanji are the three basic scripts in the Japanese writing system. Everyone plays up the last one, the kanji. Turns out, they weren't kidding. For me, kanji were even harder than I expected. They were actually multiple, embedded systems: On'yomi ( sound readings ) of a character come from the Japanese way of pronouncing the Chinese word for that character when it arrived in Old Japan. Since there were multiple waves of characters reaching Japan, there are multiple on'yomi! Go-on, kan-on, tou-on (tousou-on) and kan'you-on are the four basic Sino-Japanese pronunciations. Kun'yomi ( meaning readings ) come from tying a native Japanese word to the character as yet another way of reading it. Yes, one character can have multiple kun'yomi, too. There's more! Nanori are Japanese name readings for a character, and I find that they're often drastically different from the other two pronunciations. Even after you master pronunciation, characters still behave in odd ways. I highlight some of my favorites: - Ateji are ripped from context and used like syllable letters , just ignoring their meaning and focusing on their sound. Sushi is a common example. - Kokuji characters were created in Japan following the logic of Chinese characters. - Shinjitai and Kyuujitai are new and old character forms. A single character can have both. Many old character forms are still well known in Japan. (This isn't the same as Simplified versus Traditional characters in China.) - Ryakuji are abbreviations. Some are extremely common. Some of them look nothing like their full counterparts. Whew! ~ Credits ~ Art and animation by Josh from NativLang. Some of the music, too. Music: - Our Story Begins, Finding Movement, Sneaky Snooper and Path of the Goblin King v2 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Namaste by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com) - Inspiraparty and Thoth's Pill soundtrack by Josh (soundcloud.com/Botmasher) Images, fonts and sfx credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TmGu-cDM9P-_7rKfN8uXmDuPOtbEH95PNr-9bNTmixYWhat will Future English be like?
🛈⏬English has changed in the past, but what comes next? Hop into your time machine and predict the future of our language. Along the way, we'll meet quirky creoles, living fossils and even languages with only one speaker left. Is watching too much fun for you? Read instead: http://www.nativlang.com/edutainme/future-english.php Art, audio and animation by nativlang Some images from morguefile.com Music: Go Cart & Funkorama, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Time Passing By, Jason Shaw (audionautix.com)Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn in 2017
🛈⏬► SPONSORS ◄ DevMountain Coding Bootcamp https://goo.gl/P4vgKS Description: In this video we will look at the top 10 server side frameworks in 2019. Some of my other work... https://www.udemy.com/user/christopher-hawkes-3/ Social: https://twitter.com/RealChrisHawkesIndia's awesome hybrid alphabet thing - History of Writing Systems #10 (Alphasyllabary)
🛈⏬Not a syllabary. Not quite an alphabet. Totally Indian. Watch Ashoka discuss his land's exotic script and tell you his plans for this unique alphasyllabary. This episode traces the invention of the Indic alphasyllabary, the parent of so many scripts throughout India and Southeast Asia, from Tibet to the Philippines. Once you learn the structure behind Indian letters, try to read a completely different script in Ethiopia, the abugida, that actually works the same way! Watch all of Thoth's Pill: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc4s09N3L2h3HtaAYVqOVKGt2h6wRasw2 Who created this? Art, animation and music by NativLang CC-BY and public domain credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyYKGKVOZmDG1F71zaCcV69FSYtWk_SKT14tMQcFGU8/edit?usp=sharingProto-World and the Origin of Language
🛈⏬In which I take seven minutes to say we don't know squat. I have yet to make that video about why animals can't talk. That or I did but forgot to update this bit in the description. Nativlang's video on reconstructions of Proto-World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS-QNKYYSTw Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210 Outro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GckzLCaPEzkWhat Job Can I do With Foreign Language Skills?
🛈⏬A lot of language enthusiasts have been asking me what kind of job or career they can do using foreign languages. It`s a great question! In this video I give you some possible answers, but hopefully the Langfocus viewers will share their knowledge too! Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Nicholas Shelokov and 谷雨 穆 for their generous Patreon support. http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Music: Cuban Sandwich Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Otis McMusic by Otis McDonald.The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter
🛈⏬How an old letter and a printing press changed our pronunciation of a Scottish name. A story about Scots - neither English nor Gaelic! Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Be my patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=584038 Discuss this more on Commonlounge: https://www.commonlounge.com/community/b6f3a9d85edf4cdebf38c7e79ee9b01d ~ Corrections & Additions ~ - The traditional Scottish pronunciation of Gaelic is G[ɑ]lic rather than G[eɪ]lic. Thanks to John Hamelink and others! http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/gaelic ~ The Short of It ~ This time it's the tale not of a language, but of a leid. As I prepared to shelve Early Modern English and jump to the next topic, the one that eked out a victory in my first patron vote, I couldn't quite shut my creative notebook on this subplot. A Middle English letter got its second wind in Scotland, and was particularly useful for representing a y sound. When the printing press made its way to the Scottish Lallans, the Anglic being spoken there was already distinct from London English. This had become the home turf of Scots, an emerging language with its own literature that it was eager to print. But Scots printers made some spelling compromises, inadvertently paving the way for later speakers to misread a letter. Thanks to this glitch, the original pronunciations of certain Scottish names sound strange to us, while the misreadings have become perfectly standard! ~ Credits ~ Narration, art and animation by Josh from NativLang. Sources for claims, imgs, fonts, noises and such: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10swXhvs9epw3efMj76IlahBGR4WcDFEYB8HA3Rp0l7Y/Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of.
🛈⏬Ancient Mexico was a hotbed of language mixing. Aztecs and Maya spoke completely unrelated languages, but a Mesoamerican linguistic mindmeld tied them together in surprising ways. Here's the grammar. Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Follow my progress or become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=584038 My last video looked at the role of Aztec (Nahuatl) and Maya (Chontal) in the conquest of Mexico. This time, we learn the grammar of these languages. I'll start with the things that stood out to me about Chontal Maya and Classical Aztec pronunciation, nouns, verbs, prepositions, alignment and basic sentence structure. Stick with me through that, and you'll earn a reward big enough to satisfy the grammatical cravings of almost any language nerd. After you understand their differences, step back to see their strange sameness. Mesoamerica is a Sprachbund, an area where languages shared the same space for so long that they ended up developing many of the same features. Not just basic things like borrowing the word for chocolate , I'm talking entire linguistic structures here. I'll consider a few of these features and close with what I find so intriguing about this language area. This is a bit of a change from recent videos. Let's see if you enjoy digging into more of the grammar behind my linguistic tales. ~ CREDITS ~ Voice, art and animation by Josh from NativLang. Some of the music, too (outro, piano, and a couple softsynth instrumentals). Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): The Show Must Be Go, Path of the Goblin King v2, Big Mojo, Our Story Begins, Arid Foothills Sneaky Snooper by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com) Sources for claims and credits for images, fonts, sfx: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jhms1U2Y-HsfbTx4AWJ9D696c8BsvLLucqmMxI-XYTgAre You Making This Mistake? (Learning Programming)
🛈⏬Do you feel like you've been watching tutorials endlessly and not making headway on your goal of becoming a developer? You may be stuck in what I call Tutorial Purgatory . In this video I try and cover what tutorial purgatory is, whether or not you are doing it and how to get out of it. *** Coaching *** Want to work with me personally to elevate your career and become a software developer in the next 4 months? If you consider yourself an action-taker who is fully committed to kick-starting your career as a developer then book your free Career Strategy Session with me by going to https://andysterkowitz.com/call *** Social Media *** Catch me on social media: Twitter: @andysterks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andy.sterkowitzHow Similar are German and Dutch?
🛈⏬In this video I compare two closely related languages: German and Dutch, including vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Special thanks to Michael Lübke and Jasper Oppen for their German and Dutch audio samples! This video also includes the following phonetic sound samples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Retroflex_approximant.ogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voiced_uvular_fricative.ogg Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peter_Isotalo Support Langfocus on Patreon http://patreon.com/langfocus My current patrons include these awesome people: Nobbi Lampe-Strang, Gemmy, Renato Paroni de Castro, Divadrax, Eric Lowenthal, Andres Resendez Borgia, Anjo Barnes, Auguste Fields, Behnam Esfahbod, Bennett Seacrist, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Fiona de Visser, Georgina Toland, Guillermo Jimenez, Jacob Madsen, John Moffat, Matthew Etter, Michael Arbagi, Michael Cuomo, Paul Boychuk, Rosalind Resnick, Ruben Sanchez Jr, Sebastian Langshaw, ShadowCrossZero, Victoria Goh, Vincent David, TOKI PONA, Yuko Sunda, [APG]RoboCop[CL], Adam Fitch, Adam Powell, Adam Vanderpluym, Alberto del Angel, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Alex Hanselka, Ali Muhammed Alshehri, Andrew Woods, Angeline Biot, Artur Kondrashin, Ashley Dierolf, Atsushi Yoshida, Avital Levant, Brent Warner, Brian Begnoche, Bronwyn Salton, Bruce Schultz, Bruce Stark, Bruno Filippi, Carl saloga, Chad Belcher, Charis T'Rukh, Christian Langreiter, Christopher Lowell, Craig A Stewart, Dave Orum, David Anglin, David LeCount, Diane Young, divad, Dmitry Stillermann, Don Ross, Donald and Alexandra Wycoff, Donald Tilley, Edward Wilson, Elzbieta Koziel, Erin Robinson Swink, fatimahl, Florian Breitwieser, Frank Sellers, Frédéric Fournier, Greg Gibson, Haiko Eitzen, Hannes Egli, Harry Kek, Henri Saussure, James and Amanda Soderling, James Lillis, Jeff Miller, Jens Aksel Taklem, Jerry Janowitz, Jessica Morris, JESUS FERNANDO MIRANDA BARBOSA, JL Bumgarner, Jugurtha Ait Juba, Justin Faist, Kevin J. Baron, Klaw117, Kristopher Robinson, Leo Barudim, Lincoln Hutton, Lorraine Inez Lil, Mahmoud Hashemi, Marco Barcellos, Margaret Langendorf, Mariana Bentancor, Mark, Mark Grigoleit, Mark Kemp, Maurice Chou, Merrick Bobb, Michael Regal, Mikael Uttermalm, Mike Frysinger, mimichi, Mohammed A. Abahussain, Nicholas Gentry, Nicole Tovar, Oleksandr Ivanov, Panot, Patrick Pyne, Pauline Pavon, Paulla Fetzek, Peter Andersson, Peter Nikitin, Phoebe Churches, Pomax, Raymond Thomas, Richard Kelly, Rick Gerritzen, Rob Hoskins, Robert (Bob) Dobbin, Robert Sheehan,Roland Seuhs, Ronald Brady, Scott Fujan, Scott Irons, Scott Russell, Sergei Tikhomirov, Sergio Pascalin, ierra Rooney, Simon Blanchet, Sophia-Rose Marron, Spartak Kagramanyan, Steeven Lapointe, Stefan Reichenberger, Suzanne Jacobs, Sven Onnerstad, Theophagous, Thomas Mitchell, Tryggurhavn, veleum, William O Beeman, William Shields, yasmine jaafar, Zoe Brown, Éric Martin. Music: Main: Sleeplessness by The Brothers Record. Outro: Awaken by Anno Domini Beats.Does language shape how we think? Linguistic relativity & linguistic determinism -- Linguistics 101
🛈⏬From the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to modern psychology, get a quick feel for this ongoing debate. Is language about grammatical universals like nouns and verbs? What's the relationship between language and culture? Text version of this lesson with links to further resources: http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/linguistic-relativity.php To continue learning about language, subscribe to NativLang or visit: http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/ Music: Funkorama, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)
🛈⏬Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first true alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor civilizations borrow it left and right. It even evolves into the letters you're reading right now. As useful as the Greek alphabet is, this isn't where the history of writing ends. There are even more inventions in store for written language! Watch the full story of writing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc4s09N3L2h3HtaAYVqOVKGt2h6wRasw2 Who created this? Art, animation and music by NativLang CC-BY and public domain credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyYKGKVOZmDG1F71zaCcV69FSYtWk_SKT14tMQcFGU8/edit?usp=sharingGeneral Programming Language Comparison
🛈⏬In this video, I compare 13 programming languages in a number of areas. These languages are C, C++, CoffeeScript, Dart, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, Swift, Go, and C#. In a past video, I talked specifically about the performance of different languages. That can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhOSVbxzN9UThe Go Programming Language, An Introduction (Go from A to Z — Zürich Gophers Meetup)
🛈⏬Google Tech Talk October 30, 2015 (click show more for more info) Presented by Thomas Wilde Go from A to Z — Zürich Gophers Meetup Talks given by local users of the Go Programming Language at Google Zürich on 2015-10-30. http://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Gophers ​Thomas Wilde: Go from the ground up , an introduction to Go, its philosophy and ecosystem. http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/thwd/google-talk-october-2015/google.slideRomance Languages: conjugating verbs
🛈⏬The next in a series of lessons on the grammar of the Romance languages. Learn how verbs developed from Classical Latin through Vulgar Latin and into the Romance languages. Verbs have a meaningful stem and a grammatical ending. Vulgar Latin *cantas you sing has a stem cant- sing and an ending -as you X . The verb's ending shares information about the person (1st, 2nd or 3rd) and number (singular or plural) of its subject. It also contains a thematic vowel, which hints at its Latin conjugation (verb group). The four conjugations: I (thematic a), II (thematic e), III (thematic ĕ), IV (thematic i). A few languages (notably French) have come to expect subject pronouns with verbs: French 'je chante' but not just *'chante' for I sing . Latin, Vulgar Latin and the majority of modern Romance are pro-drop languages - the verb alone is enough for I sing in Portuguese 'canto', Romanian 'cânt', etc. The infinitive ending -re allows you to cite a verb without a subject: *cantare to sing , *videre to see , *finire to finish , etc. The Grammar of Romance has an associated website (free) and book ($). Both of them offer more explanations and examples: http://www.nativlang.com/romance-languages/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475246633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nativlangu-20 Music by Kevin MacLeodTop 3 Programming Languages in 2018. (with my thoughts on each)
🛈⏬Ex-Google tech lead Patrick Shyu gives you his top programming languages to learn in 2018. The Tech Lead covers coding languages with pros/cons analysis looking at Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Objective-C, Swift, PHP, Ruby on Rails, C#, and... more! 👇 SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL 👇 http://youtube.com/techlead?sub_confirmation=1 Keep in mind though that a lot of smaller niche languages may be up & coming. Generally, the more languages you learn, the better! But let me know what do you think? Agree? Disagree? Post in the comments below. http://instagram.com/patrickshyu/ http://twitter.com/patrickshyu/ For more tech tips & tricks, check out TechLead: Season 1 Complete HD available for purchase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wbKUHBPkh4 Here's my tech setup (★★★★★): My Desk Lamp: https://amzn.to/2xDguWy My Mouse: https://amzn.to/2DrGuJD My Keyboard: https://amzn.to/2xEOaTy My Camera: https://amzn.to/2W5dm0k My Macbook: https://amzn.to/2OuKJFj My Headphones: https://amzn.to/2phsWqj My Multitool: https://amzn.to/2xwf9zJ My Monitor: https://amzn.to/2RdlDzD Listen to audiobooks to save time on your drive, here's a free book coupon: http://audibletrial.com/techleadWhat's the Easiest Language to Learn?
🛈⏬Possibly the most commonly asked question about language learning is What is the easiest language to learn? I answer that question in general, and then with regard to native English speakers. The short answer: whatever language is most similar to your native language. But of course there`s more to it than that. In this video I discuss the easiest language to learn as well as the hardest language to learn. The full FSI list can be found here: http://langfocus.com/language-features/what-is-the-easiest-language-to-learn-for-english-speakers/ Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com Music: Kickin` It by Jingle Punks Outro music: Otis McMusic by Otis McDonald.Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
🛈⏬My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated documentary is my vision of the history of writing if you could've seen it evolve with your own eyes. It was a time-consuming labor of love in honor of written language, a topic I've been passionate about for years. ** CORRECTIONS ** (Hugs to the commenters who took time to point all of these out on specific videos in the series.) CHINESE #1 The two bottom yue examples use simplified characters, one of which ( key ) has the more common reading yao . This means that the characters didn't evolve in ancient times according to the traditional pattern presented here, but were made to look similar later in history. To find accurate examples, rewind to our character ma ( horse ). Better yet, use an online Hànzì dictionary to see each component of a specific character: http://cojak.org/ CHINESE #2 The character for ant is cited as a prefix with the more general meaning insect . ETHIOPIAN (GE'EZ) In standard transliteration, mä, bä and lä rather than ma, ba and la. KOREAN I swapped the shape keys for 'p' and 'm'. Annotations should pop up to correct this unless you're watching on mobile. 쓰기 instead of 쯔기 on the capsule at 3:20, mentioned by FredRick010 on reddit and also by multiple commenters. Meet these scripts: - Egyptian hieroglyphs - Sumerian cuneiform - Aztec glyphs - Chinese characters (Hanzi) - Maya glyphs - Phoenician abjad (consonant alphabet) - Greek alphabet - Roman alphabet - Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew consonant alphabets - Brahmic scripts, including Devanagari - Ge'ez abugida - Korean hangul and hanja - Japanese kana and kanji See these developments in the history of writing: - pictographs (pictograms) - ideographs - metonymy - logographs (logograms) - rebus writing - determinatives and radicals - syllabaries - phonetic complements - acrophony - abjads - alphabets - matres lectionis - vowel pointing - alphasyllabaries - abugidas - featural alphabets ~ Who's to thank or blame? ~ Mostly me, plus some CC-BY and public domain stuff. CREDITS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyYKGKVOZmDG1F71zaCcV69FSYtWk_SKT14tMQcFGU8 Also, Thamus' opening speech is my translation of Plato's Phaedrus 274e-275a.Different Types of Programming Languages
🛈⏬http://dgitacademy.com | There are lots of different computer programming languages, like Python, C, Java, and Go. Some are compiled while others are interpreted. Some have a garbage collector and others don't. And so on. Here are 5 key characteristics that can differentiate one programming language from another. Twitter: https://twitter.com/garyexplains Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garyexplains/Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language
🛈⏬Why is Hungarian so isolated in Europe, surrounded by unrelated languages that don't share its long words? An animated linguistic take on the history and grammar behind Hungarian's uniqueness. Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Follow my progress or become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=584038 ~ Spoiler Alert! ~ I couldn't ignore the many commenters who've pleaded with me to give Hungarian a shot. After gathering up some grammars and purchasing Lendvai's history, The Hungarians, I see why! I just had to share this linguistic tale. This video tells two stories that intertwine. First, how Hungarian got to be such a lonely language island among Indo-European languages. Second, how Hungarian uses a long-word-building strategy that's foreign in a European context: agglutination with vowel harmony. At the end, the two come together as linguists trace its words back to a common ancestor called Uralic. The Uralic family explains Hungarian's uniqueness, but also its distant relations to Finnish and Estonian within Europe and its closer shared prehistory with Uralic languages in Russia that suggest a long, long, LONG migration from Siberia! I cut an observation from the video that I wish to add here. Agglutination is abnormal in Europe, but that could have more to do with a quirk of Indo-European than Uralic. Agglutinative languages aren't rare around the world, and even other families like Turkic have vowel harmony. Compare that European-style fusional types. I am not Hungarian - check and correct. That said, I poured into this every last ounce of the time I spent practicing the language. ~ CREDITS ~ Art, narration and animation by Josh from NativLang. Some of the music, too. Sources for my claims and credits for imgs, sfx, music: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLQ2sY4KTj8Ya3ymhvsBULtX7i2QT2kwwUxOhqzUwUw/Can Animals Talk? - the linguistics behind animal language
🛈⏬Is language just for humans? Do other animals speak? Take a few minutes to explore animal communication with me. Aristotle may snip humans off from rest of the Animal Kingdom, but animals do communicate with each other. Ants leave pheromone trails, bees perform information-rich waggle dances, birds learn to sing. But are bees, ants ants, birds, whales, dolphins and the rest using real language? Well, what makes something a language? Biologists, linguists and ethologists team up to answer that question with lists of linguistic features! Displacement and duality of patterning (double articulation) are two key terms that often end up those lists. Bee dance language has displacement but not double articulation. Human language has both displacement and double articulation. What about apes? Didn’t Koko the Gorilla cry when she was told of Robin Williams’ death? Doesn’t she use sign language to build sentences out of simple gestures? Hold on, let’s come back to primates and apes (including ape-human communication) in the future. art, audio and animation: nativlang pictures: morguefile.com music: You So Zany, Happy Strumming (audionautix.com)Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)
🛈⏬Watch this ancient Chinese scribe figure out how to use a fixed set of characters to write limitless words in his language. How? By combining meaning writing (logographs) and sound writing (rebus)! The result is a set of helpful hints called determinatives, because they help you determine the meaning of a pronunciation character. Determinatives show up in Mayan, Egyptian and other ancient writing systems. In Hanzi (Chinese) and Kanji (Japanese) they're called radicals, simply because they narrow down the root meaning (the radix ) of the written character. While we're visiting China, we'll stumble across an unexpected tension: should writing be easier for the reader to read or for the writer to write? Oh, and why don't we go a step further? What if we pat Chinese characters on the back, say nice try and take our scripts ALL THE WAY to pronunciation writing? Tune in next time! The entire story of writing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc4s09N3L2h3HtaAYVqOVKGt2h6wRasw2 Who created this? Art, animation and music by NativLang CC-BY and public domain credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyYKGKVOZmDG1F71zaCcV69FSYtWk_SKT14tMQcFGU8/edit?usp=sharing0.4: What are some programming languages? - Processing Tutorial
🛈⏬This video takes a broad look at programming languages in the context of Creative Coding . http://processing.org http://libcinder.org/ http://www.openframeworks.cc/ Data flow programming: http://cycling74.com/products/max/ http://puredata.info/Top 4 Programming Languages to Learn In 2019
🛈⏬For video tips on practicing technical interview - www.algoexpert.io/luba, use luba to get 30% off! Which language to learn next year? In this video I talk about which languages to learn in 2019 based on market popularity, salary, and potential. #lifeofluba #tech #programming * LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE * ----------------------------------- FOLLOW ME ON: ★ INSTAGRAM → https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ Video Editor: www.elvis-media.comRomance Languages: helping verbs / auxiliary verbs
🛈⏬The next video in a series about the basic grammar of the Romance languages. This video runs through the basic helping verbs that have developed across the family. Feel free to pause and take the video at your own pace, especially if you're looking to read and compare all the examples. The particular focus here is on *abere to have and *essere to be . These get used as helping verbs in many constructions, including perfect constructions like *as cantatu you have sung and passive constructions like *est scriptu is written . The main (meaning-heavy) verb is found in a non-finite form when it's used with a helping verb. Non-finite forms include infinitives (*cantare to sing ), past participles (*cantatu sung ) and gerunds (*cantandu singing ). The Grammar of Romance has an associated website (free) and book ($). They both offer even more explanations and examples: http://www.nativlang.com/romance-languages/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475246633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nativlangu-20 Music by Kevin MacLeodBjarne Stroustrup: Why I Created C++
🛈⏬In the late 1970s, Stroustrup applied the idea of classes to the C programming language to create a new language that allows for high level abstraction—but is efficient and close to the hardware. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/why-i-created-c Follow Big Think here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript: What inspired you to create C++? In the really old days, people had to write their code directly to work on the hardware. They wrote load and store instructions to get stuff in and out of memory and they played about with bits and bytes and stuff. You could do pretty good work with that, but it was very specialized. Then they figured out that you could build languages fit for humans for specific areas. Like they built FORTRAN for engineers and scientists and they built COBALT for businessmen. And then in the mid-'60s, a bunch of Norwegians, mostly Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard thought why can’t you get a language that sort of is fit for humans for all domains, not just linear algebra and business. And they built something called SIMULA. And that’s where they introduced the class as the thing you have in the program to represent a concept in your application world. So if you are a mathematician, a matrix will become a class, if you are a businessman, a personnel record might become a class, in telecommunications a dial buffer might become a class—you can represent just about anything as a class. And they went a little bit further and represented relationships between classes; any hierarchical relationship could be done as a bunch of classes. So you could say that a fire engine is a kind of a truck which is a kind of a car which is a kind of a vehicle and organize things like that. This became know as object-oriented programming or also in some variance of it as data abstraction. And my idea was very simple: to take the ideas from SIMULA for general abstraction for the benefit of sort of humans representing things... so humans could get it with low level stuff, which at that time was the best language for that was C, which was done at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie. And take those two ideas and bring them together so that you could do high-level abstraction, but efficiently enough and close enough to the hardware for really demanding computing tasks. And that is where I came in. And so C++ has classes like SIMULA but they run as fast as C code, so the combination becomes very useful. What makes C++ such a widely used language? If I have to characterize C++’s strength, it comes from the ability to have abstractions and have them so efficient that you can afford it in infrastructure. And you can access hardware directly as you often have to do with operating systems with real time control, little things like cell phones, and so the combination is something that is good for infrastructure in general. Another aspect that’s necessary for infrastructure is stability. When you build an infrastructure it could be sort of the lowest level of IBM mainframes talking to the hardware for the higher level of software, which is a place they use C++. Or a fuel injector for a large marine diesel engine or a browser, it has to be stable for a decade or so because you can’t afford to fiddle with the stuff all the time. You can’t afford to rewrite it, I mean taking one of those ships into harbor costs a lot of money. And so you need a language that’s not just good at what it’s doing, you have to be able to rely on it being available for decades on a variety of different hardware and to be used by programmers over a decade or two at least. C++ is not about three decades old. And if that’s not the case, you have to rewrite your code all the time. And that happens primarily with experimental languages and with proprietary commercial languages that change to finish—to meet fads. C++’s problem is the complexity part because we haven’t been able to clean it up. There’s still code written in the 80’s that are running and people don’t like their running codes to break. It could cost them millions or more. Interviewed by Max MillerHow to Learn German By Yourself | Everything Janis
🛈⏬RESOURCES I MENTIONED: - DeutschInterativ - GermanPod101 - Duolingo - The Everything Essential German Book INSTAGRAM - @everythingjanis (https://www.instagram.com/everythingjanis/) TWITTER- https://twitter.com/janisleung2000How The World's First Written Languages Spread
🛈⏬The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different writing systems developed independently in different areas of the world, many are tied together by common roots. John Haywood of Princeton University chronicles the spread of writing systems in The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance. Subscribe to BI: Science - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9uD-W5zQHQuAVT2GdcLCvg ----------------------------------------­---------- Follow BI Video on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1oS68Zs Follow BI Video On Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1bkB8qg Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ ----------------------------------------­---------- Business Insider is the fastest growing business news site in the US. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI Video team focuses on technology, strategy and science with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders – the digital generation.What is the Best Programming Language to Learn First?
🛈⏬In this video I will give you some advice on which programming language is the best for you to learn first. This advice is quite subjective so it is worth getting a second opinion. Hopefully, in time, you will find some helpful advice in the comments section below.Romance Languages: pronunciation of Vulgar Latin & Romance
🛈⏬The next in a series of videos comparing Vulgar Latin and the Romance languages. This video introduces the pronunciation of Vulgar Latin and highlights some of the important differences in pronunciation across the Romance family. I share a lot of information, so please pause for more time to read all of the examples. This video takes on the following topics: 1. Vowels - basics - long vs. short (including quantity vs. quality of long vowels) - diphthongs (including diphthongization of short vowels) 2. Consonants - basics - double (geminate) - palatalization (consonant + /j/) - lenition 3. Syllables - syllable structure (phonotactics) - accentuation (stress accent) - elision of medial vowels/syllables - elision of final vowels/syllables The Grammar of Romance has an associated URL (free) and book ($) with more explanations & examples, including an appendix on the pronunciation of Vulgar Latin / Common Romance: http://www.nativlang.com/romance-languages/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475246633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nativlangu-20 Music: Kevin MacLeod9 Uncracked Codes & Undeciphered Scripts
🛈⏬Secret messages abound! Here are nine of the world’s most mysterious scripts and codes. Writing systems like Linear A, Rongorongo and Olmec hide ancient words we have yet to decipher. The Beale Ciphers and Kryptos deliberately transformed their messages into puzzles. The Voynich Manuscript buries its secrets beneath a strange script. Check out the photos for yourself! What do you think they say? For the difference between decipherment (cracking a script) and cryptanalysis (cracking a code), check out last week’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nMHtRaXN7U&list=UUMk_WSPy3EE16aK5HLzCJzw Creative Commons 3.0 images used for scripts and ciphers Music: Transition (audionautix.com)Lisp, The Quantum Programmer's Choice - Computerphile
🛈⏬Quantum computing is so new it needs a flexible language for programming - Robert Smith of Rigetti Quantum Computing explains why he uses this 60 yr old language for cutting-edge work. Meta-Programming: Coming Soon PDP-11 & Zork: https://youtu.be/gYng1yypNCA https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.comWhy C Programming Is Awesome
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Are Programming Languages Really Languages? - with CompChomp

Are programmers multilingual? Should Python, Ruby or Java count as foreign languages? Jessica from CompChomp (https://www.youtube.com/CompChomp) gets animated about the linguistics of programming languages - how do we talk to machines, and how is that like mastering a natural language? General CompChomp credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AesklNTUOaoZ_dOy4ETSjfdKCi3AYxImjBNAXFFGn-Y Code comprehension tasks used by Janet Siegmund et al: http://www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de/spl/janet/fMRI/Tasks.pdf CC-BY images specific to this video: MRI machine, NIAMS-NIH Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Pyro Flow, Sneaky Adventure, BlipStream, Cephalopod, Cut Trance, Danse Macabre, Pixelland, Adventure Meme Music by Josh from NativLang (soundcloud.com/Botmasher): Upbeat Thoughts, Build Me Steadily Music by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com): Ask Rufus